Balthus

The painter I mentioned at our last meeting. Sacredness vs sanctity

Check out his paintings here: : http://www.tendreams.org/balthus.htm

Dana's website + murmuring

Here's my website that has some of my previous works. It hasn't been updated for a while, but I hope it gives you guys some ideas of past Dana. http://www.soyodana.com/index.html

I am now very interested in body movement and choreography, as well as habits and rituals both in our daily lives and in traditional culture. I will talk more about my recent interests in the future posts.
I've been having a hard time finding my meaning of art making. There are already SO MANY ARTS and ARTISTS in the world, and I don't know what I really want to say or to achieve through my artworks, and how they will contribute to the world or to others.  "Does the world need another artist?" "Is my art making just for myself or do I want others to get something out of my works?" These are the questions that have been floating in me for several years.
I do hope to reveal my emotion and memories through my works, whether it is performance or visual art, and wish the others can also open their emotion to connect each other. This is very ambiguous and general hope as an art maker, and I'm still articulating why I make art.

Thanks for listening to my murmuring... Just wanted to share my thoughts with you guys.
Have an awesome weekend!

- Dana

"inyun: between us" (因緣 인연)

Hey guys,
I wanted to share one of the projects that I've done at the Providence Amtrak Station in 2010.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yDmKCfpI9E8&feature=plcp

- Dana



Description:

Sometimes I dream of being somewhere we could just talk and feel through our body without any daub of useless words.

I went to the Providence Amtrak Station, (RI, USA) for three days during the Thanksgiving holiday in 2010. I was standing on one of the two porcelain platforms that I made. Some people ignored my invitation that I sent through eye contacts or hand gestures, some came and asked what I was doing, and some just held my hands and stood up on another empty platform in front of me with their bare feet.

All I told them was "it is about just meeting people and sharing experiences." And no other instructions were given. I just held their hands and looked at their eyes as long as they wanted.

Thank you all for those who shared a silent moment (and perhaps painful due to the hard, jagged platform). And thank you very much for my friend, Heeyoung Park, who stayed with me for the whole three days and recorded these moments. 

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